Heel-plate.



T. M. MARKEY & J. OBERLIN.

HEEL PLATE.

APPLICATION FILED ocr. 13. 1916.

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THOMAS M. MARKEY AND JACOB OBERLIN, 0F FLINT, MICHIGAN.

HEEL-PLATE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 12, 1918.

Application filed October 13, 1916. Serial No. 125,427.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, THOMAS M. MARKEY and JACOB OBERLIN, citizens of the United States, residing at Flint, in the county of Genesee and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Heel-Plates, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to foot wear, such as boots and shoes, and aims to provide novel means for resisting the wear of rubber and like yieldable heels.

The invention has for its object to simplify the fastening means and to utilize the wear resister as means for preventing the head of the fastening pulling through the rubber or other cushioning heel.

The drawing illustrates a preferred embodiment of the invention. However, it is to be understood that in adapting the same to meet difierent conditions, various changes in the form, proportion, and minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the nature of the invention as claimed hereinafter.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 is a view of a heel as seen from the lower or tread side provided with wear resisting means embodying the invention.

Fig. 2 is a sectional detail on the line 4-4: of Fig. 1.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in both views of the drawing by like refe ence characters.

The numeral 8 designates the body portion of a heel such as commonly provided for boots and shoes. The numeral 7 indicates a lift or cushioning member of rubber or like yieldable material, applied to the lower or tread side of the heel, and secured thereto by suitable fastening means, indicated at 16.

In accordance with the present invention that part of the heel usually subjected to the greatest wear is provided with a resisting Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents resister is indicated generally at 14, and may be of any outline or construction and usually consists of a strip bent upon itself at a right angle to form the two elements, one of which is embedded in the heel and the other of which overlaps the tread of the heel. By having the fastening 11. passing through the overlapping element of the wear resister, said fastening is prevented from pulling through the rubber or cushioning member 7 It is also observed that the same fastening means 11 are utilized to secure the wear resister and the cushioning member to the body of the heel.

What is claimed is In combination with a rubber heel, wear resisting means therefor, comprising a member embodying two elements disposed rela tively at a right angle to each other, one of the elements being embedded in the heel and the other overlapping the tread of the heel and having openings therein, and fastenings passing through the overlapping part of the wear resisting member and through the elastic heel and serving to secure the member and heel in place.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in the presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS M. MARKEY. JACOB OBERLIN.

Witnesses:

Gnonen W. CooK, M. MERLE SHEPPARD.

each, by addressing the Commissioner of .Patents.

Washington, D. 0. 

